Gen is Eclipse’d !
Having looked at the new release of the Diagram Trace Utility (DTU) in Gen 7.6 and discovering that it’s based around Eclipse is a good thing. This means that the folks at CA are getting their act together and realising that there is a community of developers out there who know Eclipse and can use this knowledge to transition to Gen easily.
Of course, the rest of Gen isnt an Eclipse application yet, but who knows ? It could be with r8 
When r8 arrives, we SHOULD see some improvements to the user interface (if the guys that develop the tool listen to the users – and we have proof that they do) and hopefully it will be a VAST improvement on what we have been living with for years. Not that I am being critical – no – far from it – the pointandclick interface generating syntax-error free code has been around for many years in Gen and was a masterstroke – but resting on your laurels too long means those laurels become grey and withered. Time to move on to another innovative interface or (better yet) get on the Eclipse bandwagon and use that “made with Eclipse” notion to lure developers, testers and architects to the Gen world.
[...] comparison is obviously how Gen has evolved since the first moves into Eclipse in Gen 7.6 (see here). With the announcements that Gen would be moving to Eclipse for its design tools, it clearly [...]